Horse-boot.



R. SAXTON.

HORSE BOOT.

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Patented Mar. 13, 1917.

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HORSE-BOOT.

Speccation of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 13, 1917.

Application filed August 24, 1916. Serial No. 116,704.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT SAXTON, av subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse- Boots, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specication.

This invention relates to boots for horses, and has for its object to provide an improved covering for horses feet which will cushion the tread, reduce the clatter, and which may be easily and securely fastened in place. A special object is to provide improved means to prevent the clamping band, which secures the boot on the hoof, from becoming displaced in use. Other objects will appear as the description proceeds.

The invention will be first hereinafter described in connection with the accompanying drawing which constitutes part of this specific-ation and then more specifically defined at the end of the description.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein similar reference characters are used to designate corresponding parts throughout the several views:

Figure l is a side elevation of a boot made substantially in accordance with this invention, the same being shown applied to the hoof of a horse.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section through the boot, also shown on the horses hoof.

Fig. 3 is a section on the line III-III of Fig. l.

Fig. a is a transverse vertical section of the boot, and

Fig. 5 is an under plan view of the boot.

The boot l may be made of any suitable sound-deadening material and is shaped to inclose the hoof 2. A series of vertical slits 3 are formed in the restricted upper portion of the boot to allow for the same being drawn over the hoof. The bottom of the boot has formed thereon a downwardly projecting horse-shoe-shaped portion 4l: within which there is a cavity 5.

The reduced upper portion of the boot is clamped about the top of the hoof by a band 6 preferably made of metal with outwardly turned ends 7 connected by a bolt 8 fitted with a nut 9. To properly position the band 6 around the upper portion of the boot, a pair of lugs 10 are formed integral with the latter, one of said lugs being located at the front and the other at the rear of the boot. The outer faces of these lugs are substantially parallel, being mounted at acute angles to the converging sides of the boot, thus providing a firm seat vfor the band so that there is no danger of the latter being displaced while it is being tightened up or drawn in forcibly around the boot. To further insure the retention of the band in proper position on the lugs l0 when the boot is in use, downwardly facing projecting lugs ll are formed inteo'ral with the boot at opposite sides thereof, said vlugs 11 having abrupt shoulders engaging the upper edge of the band.

I-Iaving thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. The combination, with a boot for horses, having upwardly converging sides to fit around a hoof, of a clamping band mounted around the upper portion of said boot, and lugs on the boot having their outer faces arranged at acute angles to adjacent portions of the sides to fit the inner face of the band for the purpose specied.

2. The combination, with a boot for horses, having upwardly converging sides to fit around a hoof, of a clamping band mounted around the upper portion of said boot, and lugs on the front and rear portions of said sides, said lugs having their outer faces substantially parallel to lit the inner face of the band for the purpose specified.

3. The combination, with a boot for horses, of a clamping band mounted around said boot, spaced lugs carried by the boot and having their outer faces fitting the inner face of the band, and other spaced lugs arranged on a higher level and between the iirst lugs and also carried by the boot for holding the band down on said first lugs.

l. The combination, withV a boot for horses, of a clamping band mounted around said boot, lugs on the front and rear portions of the boot and having their outer faces fitting the inner face of the band, and other lugs on the sides of the boot for engaging the upper ,edges of the band to hold the same down on the rst lugs.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

ROBERT SAXTON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for iive cents each, by addressing the i Commissioner of '.Patents. Washington, D. C. 

